the collected home
Ya’ll, Fall is my favorite. I love the cool clear mornings, the changing colors of the leaves, cooler nights with thicker woobies on the bed…..All of it :). It just makes my heart so full. So I was walking through Hobby Lobby about a week ago and it was pumpkin everything and I just thought to myself, Who gives a crap…
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Ya’ll…… The pressure washing man came last week! Can I get a ThankyeJesus??? We were absolutely convinced that we were about to have to paint 9,000 miles of exterior trim, overhangs, windows and porch railing on this house . And nobody was looking forward that crap. In fact we were both about to cry….well, I definitely was. Turns out it was just filthy:)…
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Ya’ll my front porch is a mess. I am most definitely crapping ya’ll negative. It needs to be pressure washed, purged and painted, plus a whole slew of wasp nests knocked down. I have just not taken the time to to spruce it up for the warmer months and I am regretting the hell out of it. So while I am…
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Lord y’all. I am painting everything that will hold still around here! And Nantucket Green appears to the color. Today’s victim: I found this bench last Spring in the front porch area at Habitat Restore. I remember it being a good deal but I can’t remember exactly what I paid for it. When I find these types of benches I…
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Ya’ll. That Trader Joe’s. Last week I goy myself a dozen roses there for $7 and then proceeded to hit every junk store, thrift store and outhouse in Buncombe county. I forgot that I actually had 12 gorgeous cream colored rosed in my Jeep. Lord. I am just like a dog who sees a squirrel. I forget about everything and…
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Y’all I couldn’t stand it. It’s February. I know what the calendar says but we have had near 80 degree days for about two weeks here and I am loving it! We have had so much rain here in Western North Carolina and very little snow this Winter which is quite disappointing to a Snow Lunatic like myself that I just thought…
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